An evolving view of methane metabolism in the Archaea

PN Evans, JA Boyd, AO Leu, BJ Woodcroft… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Methane is a key compound in the global carbon cycle that influences both nutrient cycling
and the Earth's climate. A limited number of microorganisms control the flux of biologically …

Advances in microbial lignin degradation and its applications

N Kamimura, S Sakamoto, N Mitsuda, E Masai… - Current Opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Lignocellulosic biomass utilization is crucial for sustainable development.•Lignin
has two characteristics, a useful biomass component and an inhibitor of wall …

Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis in archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota reveals the shared ancestry of all methanogens

BA Berghuis, FB Yu, F Schulz… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Methanogenic archaea are major contributors to the global carbon cycle and were long
thought to belong exclusively to the euryarchaeal phylum. Discovery of the methanogenesis …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic potential of uncultured bacteria and archaea associated with petroleum seepage in deep-sea sediments

X Dong, C Greening, JE Rattray, A Chakraborty… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The lack of microbial genomes and isolates from the deep seabed means that very little is
known about the ecology of this vast habitat. Here, we investigate energy and carbon …

Phylogenomics suggests oxygen availability as a driving force in Thaumarchaeota evolution

M Ren, X Feng, Y Huang, H Wang, Z Hu… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are widespread in
marine and terrestrial habitats, playing a major role in the global nitrogen cycle. However …

Insights into ecological role of a new deltaproteobacterial order Candidatus Acidulodesulfobacterales by metagenomics and metatranscriptomics

S Tan, J Liu, Y Fang, BP Hedlund, ZH Lian… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Several abundant but yet uncultivated bacterial groups exist in extreme iron-and sulfur-rich
environments, and the physiology, biodiversity, and ecological roles of these bacteria …

Genomic and transcriptomic insights into the ecology and metabolism of benthic archaeal cosmopolitan, Thermoprofundales (MBG-D archaea)

Z Zhou, Y Liu, KG Lloyd, J Pan, Y Yang, JD Gu… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Marine Benthic Group D (MBG-D) archaea, discovered by 16S rRNA gene survey
decades ago, are ecologically important, yet understudied and uncultured sedimentary …

[HTML][HTML] Metagenome-assembled genomes provide new insight into the microbial diversity of two thermal pools in Kamchatka, Russia

LGE Wilkins, CL Ettinger, G Jospin, JA Eisen - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Culture-independent methods have contributed substantially to our understanding of global
microbial diversity. Recently developed algorithms to construct whole genomes from …

Efficient biogas production from cattle manure in a plug flow reactor: A large scale long term study

L Dong, G Cao, X Guo, T Liu, J Wu, N Ren - Bioresource Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, a large-scale plug flow reactor has been operated at a hydraulic retention time
of 25 d with substrate concentration of total solids (7–10%) under a temperature of 37–40° C …

Anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation in candidate phylum 'Atribacteria'(JS1) inferred from genomics

YF Liu, ZZ Qi, LB Shou, JF Liu, SZ Yang, JD Gu… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The hydrocarbon-enriched environments, such as oil reservoirs and oil sands tailings
ponds, contain a broad diversity of uncultured microorganisms. Despite being one of the few …